Chapter 93 Burning

Zheng Yiguan is indeed a little anxious now. Although his strength is strong, he came a little late. There are almost no more territory along the coast of Fujian for him to seize. There is a sea wolf with Xiaotian in the north, which controls most of the sea of Xinghuafu from Meizhou Bay to Funingzhou. He currently does not In the case of Yan Siqi, he did not dare to fight with Yu Xiaotian easily.

And Chu Cai is the boss in the south, and Chu Cai is not a good person to provoke. Even if he was beaten by a sea wolf some time ago, the starved camel is bigger than a horse, and he still has considerable strength.

And Zheng Yiguan's reputation is now stinking because he turned against Yan Siqi. Many people think that this guy is too immoral, not a funny thing, unwilling to deal with him, and a small group of pirates are unwilling to go to join him.

Behind him, there is also Yan Siqi who is coveted and wants to trouble him, and he does not have a decent foothold in the coastal area. He can only stay in the Penghu area, and his supplies are very inconvenient.

The other thing that makes Zheng Yiguan feel most depressed is the existence of Xu Xinsu.

Xu Xinsu is a rich merchant in Zhangquan. He went abroad to do maritime trade a long time ago. Later, Xu Xinsu met Li Dan. Both of them were sea merchants. Xu Xinsu admired Li Dan very much, and Li Dan was also very good to Xu Xinsu, so he became a brother.

However, Xu Xinsu was very dissatisfied with the fact that Zheng Yiguan robbed Li Dan's inheritance after Li Dan died of illness this time. In addition, he and Zheng Yiguan had been lewd before, so he broke off his relationship with Zheng Yiguan and began to work alone.

Xu Xinsu is very powerful in the Zhangquan area and has a lot of face in the government. He has a good relationship with the Dutch and holds the supply of raw silk in almost the whole Fujian area.

And raw silk is now the favorite commodity of Western countries. Although Japan can also provide some raw silk, the quantity is very small, far from the quality of raw silk in China, and the quantity is not as large as here.

The Dutch must pass Xu Xinsu to get raw silk. Xu Xinsu and Zheng Yiguan break up, which made Zheng Yiguan lose the way of raw silk, so Zheng Yiguan also hate Xu Xinsu to death. During this period, he often intercepted Xu Xinsu's ships at sea, * Xu Xinsu's wealth.

Forced Xu Xinsu to strengthen his strength at sea. In the past, Xu Xinsu mainly did business and did not do much * business at sea, so the strength of merchant ships was not small, but he did not have much strength to fight with people.

So Xu Xinsu asked the Dutchman to help him deal with Zheng Yiguan and protect his merchant ship from going to the big man to deal with the Dutch.

The Dutch trust Xu Xinsu quite, and they do need the supply of raw silk controlled by Xu Xinsu's hands, but because of this, they are obviously unwilling to do it.

Because the Dutch have few permanent troops in Taiwan, there are only more than 1,000 infantry and artillery. There are only a few ships, except for two large armed merchant ships, the rest can only be regarded as gunboats at best.

With their strength, it is obviously impossible to destroy Zheng Yiguan, and Zheng Yiguan is now an indeterminate pirate, and it is difficult to find them, so the Dutch can only provide Xu Xinsu with some cannons and let Xu Xinsu arm her own merchant ships to fight against Zheng Yiguan.

However, even if Xu Xinsu was supported by the Dutch, he still couldn't deal with Zheng Yiguan, so at this time, Yan Siqi came to the door, because Yan Siqi also lived in Japan and had a good relationship with Li Dan. Naturally, he also knew Xu Xinsu. The two of them are also a little close. Now Now they have a common enemy, so the two sides hit it together to deal with Zheng Yiguan.

Xu Xinsu's force is not strong, but the land area around Zhangquan is familiar with money, while Yan Siqi has ships, cannons, and manpower. It is indeed a good choice for the two sides to add together.

So Xu Xinsu paid for it, and Yan Siqi came out and began to provide protection for Xu Xinsu, that is, escorting Xu Xinsu, so that Xu Xinsu could be relatively safer and go to sea to do business with the Dutch.

When Yu Xiaotian saw this, he left this information on the table and couldn't help laughing a little. Because of his appearance, Zheng Yiguan's life is really difficult now. Compared with his original road of development in history, although he has inherited Li Dan's manor and his strength has greatly increased, he has lost his original As his nest, Bengang also has more forces hostile to him, Yan Siqi and Sea Wolf.

And by mistake, Yan Siqi survived. He did not die at a young age as in history, leaving Zheng Yiguan a pot of ready-made good food. On the contrary, because Zheng Yiguan wanted to replace him because the tail was not big, he finally did not hit the fox, but provoked a lot of trouble.

Now the former brothers turned against each other, and Yan Siqi became Zheng Yiguan's sworn enemy.

Zheng Yiguan's road is not as smooth as in another time and space in history. Now he has made enemies on all sides, and he doesn't even have a decent place to settle down. Because of Xu Xinsu, the Dutchman also began to be hostile to Zheng Yiguan, adamantly refused Zheng Yiguan's request to their * cannon, and banned Zheng Yiguan's ship. Just go with your subordinates.

So can Zheng Yiguan quickly rise as a hegemony at sea as in another time and space in history? Now it seems that his future is really worrying!

In addition, among the various information collected, Yu Xiaotian also saw the news that the sea wolf came back from Trenching Macao, that is, Macao. Zheng Yiguan could not make cannons from the Dutch. During this period, he frequently moved in Macao, hoping to buy a batch of cannons from the Portuguese to strengthen his strength.

This information is relatively important information, because Zheng Yiguan began to learn business from his uncle when he was a teenager away from home. He first lived in Macao and was baptized by Catholicism and gave him a religious name, which is a very important thing in his life.

He also has a considerable relationship with the Portuguese and the Catholic Church in Macao. Although he did not deal with the Spaniards after Li Dan, he did not turn against the Portuguese. Although Portugal is now under the banner of the Spanish king for the time being, these Portuguese and Spaniards are not close. The close brothers are at most different dreams in the same bed, each with their own plans.

Portuguese are not good at it. They are very good at drilling. After so many years in China, they have a deep understanding of China's situation and people's way of thinking.

Although there is no conflict between the sea wolf and the Portuguese, and there is a lot of business dealing with each other, and the sea wolf and other pirates are very different from the Portuguese, that is, the sea wolf does not unilaterally sell some Chinese goods to the Portuguese, but also from the Portuguese. I bought a lot of things, including bulk hardwood, Indian canvas, cotton cloth, Indian saltpeter and Indian fine iron, and even rice from the Li Dynasty.

Although the Portuguese also shipped a lot of these things before, they have never been able to afford it. In the Ming era, the consumption capacity of the vast majority of the people was very poor, even including many landlord families. They lived a self-sufficient small peasant economy and foreign goods The demand is very small. Only a few powerful and businessmen or particularly rich people who pursue fashion and face will buy some luxury goods such as mirrors and glass.

Like Indian cotton cloth, although Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish and even British people have tried to use this product to open the Chinese market and exchange profits for Daming's specialties.

But this effort ultimately failed, because Daming also has a large number of high-quality and low-cost Songjiang cloth in this era, which does not require a large amount of imported Indian cotton cloth to meet the demand. Moreover, after Indian cotton cloth is shipped to Daming, the cost may not be much better than Songjiang cloth. In addition, farmers often weave their own cloth. Although the texture is poorer and rougher, people without money would rather choose to weave their own cloth than buy Indian cotton cloth.

So Westerners can now handle it. There are really not many kinds of goods sold to Chinese people, including slave trading. The Chinese themselves are exiled all over the ground, and it is impossible to buy Western slaves at a high price. There is no market for the slave trade in China.

In this way, in addition to a small amount of spices, dyes, glass, Western handicrafts, gemstones and jewelry, etc., they can also be sold to the Chinese, and the rest of the Ming Dynasty can basically be produced by themselves. Westerners could hardly sell much to the Chinese before the * war.

China has been in a trade surplus for almost hundreds of years. Westerners can only find ways around the world to plunder silver and then ship it to China in exchange for Chinese porcelain, tea, silk, raw silk and other goods, so that China has been imported a large amount of silver for a long time. It is in a state of inflation.

It was not until the defeat of the Qing Dynasty that a series of humiliating land ceding compensation treaties caused a large outflow of silver held by China, and China's silver stock began to decline significantly.

But what made the Portuguese happy was that after meeting the sea wolf, they found that this group of sea wolves was different from other Chinese merchants and pirates. They did not like to store a large amount of silver, but preferred some ordinary materials that seemed to be of little value, especially various raw materials, almost all of which they like to want. Something.

Among them, sea wolves like their favorite things, all kinds of canvases that can be used to make sails, as well as low-cost Indian cotton cloth, fine iron, rice, and hardwood. In the past, Westerners could not sell these things at all, but sea wolves wanted them all, and the quantity is still very large, not to mention how many they want, at least they can no longer be like In that case, it was bought with white money.

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